The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-15
HOW TO BUILD UP HEALTH
Ben Hogan, the Reformed PugiIist. Talks
About Physical Development.
selves Healthy. and the Sickly How They
Can Overcome the Ills Of the Body.

Can Overcome the Ills Of the Body.
Ben Hogan. the reformed pugilist closed his
evangelistic work in Indianapolis last night by
delivering his lecture on physical Culture. "
The audience to which he spoke in the Y. NJ. c.
a Hall was not large, but those who were pres
ent were very highly entertained. Mr.. Hogan
himself is model of physical development and
while much of his talk was based on personal
experience, it showed that he had studied his
subject carefully from a scientific stand point
he began with the sweeping statement that
there were more sick than we'll people in the
world, all because they did not take proper care
OF their bodies. It the practice Of people
who had money to GO to another climate soon
as they discovered they diseased. Dur
ing my recent visit to California" said he,
II found thousands of the people from
the East there seeking health. They were
living at frst-class hotels. taking no
exercise and eating the richest of food. Many
of them asked me what they should do to regain
their health, and my answer always was rough
it In every city there thousands of rich
men and women who are ready to commit sui
eide because of ill-health. What is wealth
without healthf they say. Nothing should
say but do say that while every man can not
amass wealth, every one can secure good health.
know a man who owns fine horse. He en-
ploys two men to take care Of that horse and
keep HIM in condition. He is exercised,
sponged and blanketed daily. Does the owner
himself have a man to take care of himl No.
He possibly bathes cnce a week. He arises at
o'clock in the morning, throws his breakfast
down without masticating it, and madly rushes
off to his business At noon he PUSHES into q
restaurant and eats his dinner in five minutes.
On he goes, hiring men to look after the health
of his horse, but never stops to think of his own
body and it's needs
+ IA man cannot digest lis food unless he eats
carefully. A meal should never be eaten in less
than one hour Gladstone says he bites each
piece of meat he puts into his mouth twenty
times before he swallows it. and that isn't too
often. The men of to-day who throw their food
into their stomaches are physical wrecks in ff-
teen years. The American doctor studies med
icine when he should study nature; instead OF
trying to prevent disease they try to cure.
There are many people who do not take bath
in two years, and they pSematurely die from
poisoning. The poison that accumulates under
the first layer of skin breeds disease, and sooner
or later must come death.
There are thousands of people dying OF con-
sumption who haven't sense enough to know
that they can throw it off, No man who is lazy
can become healthy for the best way to bring
health Is by physical development / have seen
thousands of young men apparently on the verge
of the grave grow strong by following this daily
routine: When you get up in the morning rub
yourself with a rough towel until the blood is in
circulation, and then take cold bath. Never
take cold bath without getting the blood in
circulation, for it is dangerous After the bath
rub the flesh for three-quarters of an hour.
Then take cup of tea and eat some toast, and
start out for haf-hour's walk. Don't plod
slowly along the streets. but walk as rapidly as
your legs will carry you When you return
you are ready for breakfast. Eat rice. mutton
chops and toast. and drink tea. If you are
business man you are ready for business, but if
you training for athlete you will again
start upon the walk and keep it up all day. A
man under training is required to walk at least
forty miles every day. When he returns from
his walk heis put under blankets until he has
cooled, and then again put in the bath
tub He is taken out and rubbed
or manipulated. Then he is ready for dinner.
: eat raw ham raw steak without salt or pep
per. Pugilists not allowed to pepper,
because it heats the blood. For men who
not undergoing training for pugilists l would
advise dinner on rare beef, rice, and other
vegetables cooked dry.
Every man should attempt to sleep few
minutes after dinner. Sleep is the best digester.
A pugilist who can sleep fifteen minutes after
his dinner feels sure of winning the fight, be-
cause he knows his nerves are steady. After no
awakes. comes the exercise in the gymnasium
with the dumb-bells and clubs No man should
be trained with dumb-bells that weigh more
than ten pounds 1t is not the weight that de-
velops the man, but the movements of the mus
Gle. There are over one hundred movements TO
be practiced with the bells, and when man has
attained them all be is in fair way to become
physically powerful
every boy, and every man, no matter what
his business, should spend two hours Of each
day in gymnasium It is all mistaken idea
that course in physical training tends toward
pueilism and rowdyism. The result is quite the
reverse, for the training engenders q spirit of
generous manlness and nobility. OF the hun
dreds of men have taken through a course of
physical training, / never knew one to become
pugilist Pugilists are born. not made, and il
your boy wants to be pugilist, he will be
without going TO gymnasium.
every minister of the gospel should preach
q sermon on physical training once a month.
Out of 400 ministers I saw in one audience il
New York not two had physical powers suf-
Referring again to food, Mr.. Hogan
said that a should avoid hot
biscuits as he would avoid poison.
hundreds of people and they did not know what
caused dyspepsia. Referring ventilation. he
said indianapolis was the worst city he
ever in for impure air in buildings. Il went
into a church last Sunday" said he, 'and the
air was so foul that had to excuse myself. be-
cause the atmosphere was enough to stagger a
man. Windows should always be kept open
above and below and then current of air is
avoided. Many people have foolish idea that
they will catch cold if they sit in cool air. but
cold air or fresh air never gave anybody cold"
The time had come. Mr.. Hogan said. when
Americans must educate their children physc-
ally Under the present educational system
the schools and colleges turning out tramps
and vagabonds
What would he do with the women was often
asked him. Il would put them IN the gymna-
stun too" said he Il would give them the
broom, the fat-iron and the washtub. The
women need physical exercise fully as much as
the men, and they will have to rid themselves
of the idea that they cannot sweep, iron and
wash, and still be ladies unless they want their
ofsprings to be physical WRECKS"
wooI-Growers and the Tariff.
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